Re: keeping track of specific characters in a GtkTextBuffer

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

20 feb 2007 kl. 22.09 skrev Adam Tertial:

Hi,

Even though there are many skilled Gtk+ application developers on  
this list there is a list where you might find more help with this  
kind of questions called gtk-app-deve-list [1].

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list

> Hi,
>
> I need to be able keep track of the location of
> specific characters in a GtkTextBuffer, and I was
> wondering what the most efficient way of doing that
> was. Is it possible to have pointers to characters in
> the buffer? I had thought about inserting a
> GtkTextMarker whenever the user types the character
> I'm interested in, but the documentation says: "If the
> text surrounding the mark is deleted, the mark remains
> in the position the text once occupied", and I would
> want the marks to be deleted along with the text. If
> that's the right approach, I suppose when the user
> deletes any text I could check all the marks to see if
> they were in that text and then delete them myself,
> but that seems a bit inefficient to me.
>
> All and any ideas are welcome! :)
>
>
>
> 		
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